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Photos and details about the diversity of crocodilians and birds.

Ornithologist Ana Luz Porzecanski answers this question.

Make your own bird feeder and record your observations in a bird journal.
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Confuciusornis is the earliest-known toothless, beaked bird.
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According to legend, the roc was a giant bird large and strong enough to carry an elephant in its claws. As incredible a...
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At age 10, George Barrowclough began bird watching with his dad. He pursued his interest in birds by becoming an ornitho...
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With its bird-like features, this animal was mistaken for a giant bird for a while.
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This extinct bird weighed over 330 pounds and had heavy legs and tiny wings. 

Can you find all 16 birds in this sanctuary? When you do, listen to their songs.
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This large dark bird is unmistakable soaring in the air along the coast.
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This prehistoric relative of living ducks had a long neck, tall legs, webbed feet, and a duck-like head.
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The first vertebrates to fly took to the skies about 215 million years ago. These creatures were neither birds nor bats....
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Growing up, Joel Cracraft loved reading travel and adventure books. In high school, he became interested in ornithology,...
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An invasive species is a living thing that moves into a new region. Species often become "invasive" as a result of human...
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The snowy egret is a beautiful sight. An adult egret is distinguished by its dark slender beak, long black legs, and yel...
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California condors are the largest birds in North America. Like all vultures, condors are carrion-eaters. This means tha...
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The whooping crane is known as the tallest bird in North America. This long legged creature has been struggling to survi...
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His love of natural sciences and extreme camping led this scientist to paleontology.
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This fossilized skull was recently discovered at Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert. It is probably from a new kind of dino...
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Ornithologists, or scientists who study birds, want to prevent the forests of the Pacific Northwest from being chopped d...
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New Caledonia, a tiny island east of Australia, is the only place where an unusual bird called the kagu is found. About ...

Find out what's so fascinating about these beautiful, pink birds.
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About 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert, sixteen dinosaurs hatched in this nest. One of the hatchlings died before...
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When she was a kid, Ana explored the landscapes of rural Uruguay and Brazil and the many plants and animals that live th...
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This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou. 
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The Dzanga-Sangha rain forest is alive with the sounds of snakes, chimpanzees, birds, insects, and many exotic creatures...
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The mythic bird-creature Garuda is often shown attacking Nagas, snakelike creatures with human heads.
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As a conservation geneticist, Yael tries to help endangered species by studying their DNA.
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It started with a cough and stuffy nose. But now you're achy, feverish, and exhausted. You just might have influenza, or...
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This predator has fast feet, a pair of "killing claws," and more than 60 jagged teeth!
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When most people think of flamingos, they imagine the delicate pink bird wading in a warm and sunny tropical marsh. Not ...
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An animal or plant becomes extinct when the last of its kind dies. 
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he joined Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica. Known as "Cherry," he was one of th...
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For thousands of years, the dragon has been an unmistakable symbol around the world. But this lizard-like beast doesn't ...
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Effigia looks just like a dinosaur. It particularly looks a lot like bird-like dinosaurs called ornithomimids, or ostric...
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Scientists have identified over 1.75 million species on Earth -- over one million of them are insects and spiders.
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Most people know red and black spotted ladybird beetles as friendly insects that are fun to pick up and watch fly away. ...
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Sauropods weren't just the largest dinosaurs. They were also the largest animals to ever live on land. The sauropod Mame...
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When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natural h...
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The frigid waters of the Arctic and the Antarctic may seem like hostile habitats. But a variety of marine life -- from a...
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For thousands of years, humans have relied on the power of wind to sail across oceans, pump water, and grind grain.
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Animals swim, walk, crawl, slither, squirm, and even fly through the air. They can catch free rides by attaching themsel...
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This real-life "Indiana Jones" led the first AMNH expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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Located off the coast of Georgia, St. Catherines is an island with white sandy beaches, a variety of wildlife, and dense...
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The St. Vincent parrot makes its home on the tropical island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. These parrots are covered ...
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When you wake up in the morning, you might see sunlight through your window, hear birds chirping, or smell breakfast.
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About 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called Pterodaustro guinazui soared above the coast of what is now Argenti...
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Ross MacPhee has always loved dirt. It means the opportunity to find lost things--from bones and teeth to pirate treasur...
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Around the North Pole, temperatures are so cold that parts of the ocean turn into solid ice called "sea ice.
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Susan Perkins has always loved being outside. As a child, she played in the woods and took field notes about birds and s...
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More than four thousand islands—including one big island—make up this nation in the Caribbean Sea.